Hello everyone,

Look forward to connecting with everyone at the conference next week!
I think there is a lot of synergy in our work and ways we can help each other, so we look forward to exploring ways we can work together. Feel free to connect with me on twitter. http://twitter.com/roshani

Introduction



I work as the Partnership Director for OneWorld U.S. I started working with OneWorld when it launched in the U.S. in 2001. I manage partnership activities, including the Peer Learning Exchange, Nonprofit Networking Events, Local Lists, Jobs and the Gift Guide. My previous experience includes working as program Officer at Pact, an international development organization; and interning with Catholic Relief Services/El Salvador. I received a MA in international development from the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University and a BA in international studies and communications from Trinity University in San Antonio. I am originally from India, and have lived in Bolivia, El Salvador, Thailand and Zimbabwe, documenting my travels in my online photography gallery. I also enjoy learning foreign languages, watching foreign films, vegetable gardening and African dance.

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OneWorld Connect
Here are resource links to our project.
http://netsquared.org/2008/conference/projects/world-connect
http://www.netsquared.org/blog/rolf-kleef/getting-mood-netsquared-mashup-challenge-oneworld-connect

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"OneWorld provides Ashoka a global platform for its online feature stories, and valuable training and networking opportunities with other partners and experts."

"Membership in OneWorld.net is an invaluable part of our communications work. We are consistently impressed with the topical, insightful news highlighted on the OneWorld web site. Additionally, whenever Women's Edge Coalition is featured on OneWorld, we notice a surge in traffic to our web site.OneWorld.net is the first site we check for news from the international development community and we're thrilled to have become a partner organization."

"We love our membership in OneWorld, it expands our view with ease, has brought us new friends and allies, and keeps us up to date on the all too rapidly changing world of effective organizing."

"OneWorld has been a very valuable resource for the Center for Arms Control & Non-Proliferation. Their news services have helpedus to broadcast our press releases to a broader audience than we traditionally have access to, and driving traffic to our websites. In addition, they have been a wonderful networking tool, helping us make contact and exchange ideas with a diverse set of individuals and organizations."

READER QUOTES

"I find that by reading articles I think I have little interest about, I grow and learn about the topics OneWorld shares. It has become a matter of trust for me. If you guys publish it, there must be a reason… So I go on reading and learning. Thanks."

"I use your service as part of my news gathering efforts to get a balanced view on the subjects that matter to me."

"A very good and highly informative service for people who are too busy to search individual sites for news."

"For me the OneWorld Daily headlines are to NGO news what the BBC is to international news… I would hate to be without it!"

"My sense is that OW reaches the unaffiliated folks who're more likely to be inspired individually than organizationally to act on things. So your focus on news (raising awareness and understanding), in my opinion, serves readers as a reliable base in these unraveling times."